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Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave By Mark Mordue (Softcover)

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Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave By Mark Mordue (Softcover)

 

The long-awaited, near-mythical biography of Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue.

 

A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait of the artist as, first, a boy, and then as a young man. A deeply insightful work which charts his family, friends, influences, milieu and, most of all, his music, it reveals how Nick Cave shaped himself into the extraordinary artist he would become.

 

As well as a powerfully compelling biography of a singular, uncompromising artist, Boy on Fire is a fascinating social and cultural biography, a vivid and evocative rendering of a time and place, from the fast-running dark river and ghost gums of Wangaratta to the nascent punk scene which hit staid 1970s Melbourne like an atom bomb, right through to the torn wallpaper, sticky carpet and the manic, wild energy of nights at the Crystal Ballroom.

 

Boy on Fire is a stunning biographical achievement...

 

'All the relevant voices have their say, creating a wonderfully alive picture of this tumultuous time in modern Australian music ... on the page, they glint with vitality and humour ... written with mercurial flair' Books+Publishing

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